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One soul animates a nation, and that soul is the soul of the orator.

Old F. Oh! what a figure he'll make in the King's Bench! But come, I will tell you now what my plan is, and then you will see how happily this determination of yours will further it. You have [Tristram makes extravagant gestures, as if speaking] often heard me speak of my friend Brief wit, the barrister

Tri. Who is against me in this cause Old F. He is a most learned lawyer · Tri. But, as I have justice on my sideOld F. Zounds! he does n't hear a word I say! Why, Tristram !

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Old F. Well, - my friend, the counselor

- go on, sir, I am

Tri. Say learned friend, if you please, sir. We gentle

men of the law always

Old F. Well, well, my learned friend

Tri. A black patch!·

Old F. Will you listen, and be silent?

Tri. I am as mute as a judge.

Old F. My friend, I say, has a ward who is very handsome, and who has a very handsome fortune. She would make you a charming wife.

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Old F. Now, I have hitherto been afraid to introduce you my friend, the barrister, because I thought your lightness, and his gravity

Tri. Might be plaintiff and defendant.

Old F. But now you are grown serious and steady, and have resolved to pursue his profession, I will shortly bring

you together; you will obtain his good opinion, and all the rest follows, of course.

Tri. A verdict in my favor.

Old F. You marry, and sit down happy for life.

Tri. In the King's Bench.

Old F. Bravo-ha, ha, ha! But now, run to your study, run to your study, my dear Tristram, and I'll go and call upon the counselor.

Tri. I remove by habeas corpus.

Old F. Pray have the goodness to make haste, then.

[Hurrying him off.]

Tri. Gentlemen of the jury, this is a cause [Exit.] Old F. The inimitable boy! I am now the happies: father living. What genius he has!

He'll be lord chancel

-I am sure he has

lor one day or other, I'll dare be sworn,
talents! Oh, how I long to see him at the bar!

LESSON LXXXVIII.

EULOGY ON AMERICA. - PHILLIPS.*

1. The mention of America, sir, has never failed to fill me with the most lively emotions. In my earliest infancy,that tender season when impressions at once the most permanent and the most powerful, are likely to be excited, the story of her then recent struggle raised a throb in every heart that loved liberty, and wrung a reluctant tribute even from discomfited oppression.

2. I saw her spurning alike the luxuries that would enervate, and the legions that would intimidate; dashing from her lips the poisoned cup of European servitude; and, through all the vicissitudes of her protracted conflict, displaying a magnanimity that defied misfortune, and a moderation that

* Phillips, a distinguished Irish orator.

gave new grace to victory. It was the first vision of my childhood; it will descend with me to the grave. But if, as a man, I venerate the mention of America, what must be my feelings toward her as an Irishman! Never, Oh! never, while memory remains, can Ireland forget the home of her emigrant, and the asylum of her exile!

3. No matter whether their sorrows sprung from the errors of enthusiasm, or the realities of suffering; from fancy, or infliction: that must be reserved for the scrutiny of those, whom the lapse of time shall acquit of partiality. It is for the men of other ages to investigate and record it; but surely, it is for the men of every age to hail the hospitality that received the shelterless, and love the feeling that befriended the unfortunate.

4. Search creation round, and where can you find a country that presents so sublime a view, so interesting in anticipation? What noble institutions! What a comprehensive policy! What a wise equalization of every political advantage! The oppressed of all countries, the martyr of every creed, the innocent victim of despotic arrogance, of superstitious frenzy, may there find refuge; his industry encouraged, his piety respected, his ambition animated; with no restraint but those laws which are the same to all, and no distinction but that which his merit may originate.

5. Who can deny, that the existence of such a country presents a subject of human congratulation? Who can deny, that its gigantic advancement offers a field for the most rational conjecture? At the end of the very next century, if she proceeds as she seems to promise, what a wondrous spectacle may she not exhibit! Who shall say for what purpose a mysterious Providence may not have designed her? Who shall say, that, when in its follies or its crimes the old world may have interred all the pride of its power, and all the pomp of its civilization, human nature may not find its destined renovation in the new.

LESSON LXXXIX.

NEW YORK AS IT ONCE WAS.-BANCROFT.

[The pupil may determine the character of the language or style of this piece, note the succession of particulars, and tell how they should be read.]

1. Somber forests shed a melancholy grandeur over the useless magnificence of nature, and hid in their deep shades the rich soil which the sun had never warmed. No ax had leveled the giant progeny of the crowded groves, in which the fantastic forms of withered limbs that had been blasted and riven by lightning, contrasted strangely with the verdant freshness of a younger growth of branches. The wanton grape-vine, seeming by its own power to have sprung from the earth, and to have fastened its leafy coils on the top of the tallest forest-tree, swung in the air with every breeze, like the loosened shrouds of a ship.

2. The spotted deer crouched among the thickets, but not to hide, for there was no pursuer; and there were none but wild animals to crop the uncut herbage of the productive prairies. Silence reigned, unbroken, it may have been, by the flight of land-birds, or the flapping of water-fowl, and rendered more dismal by the howl of wild beasts.

3. Man, then the occupant of the soil, was wild as the savage scene; in harmony with the rude nature by which he was surrounded; a vagrant over the continent; in constant warfare with his fellow-man; the bark of the birch, his canoe; strings of shells, his ornaments, his record, and his coin; the roots of the forest, among his resources of food; and his knowledge of architecture, surpassed, both in strength and durability, by the skill of the beaver.

4. But how changed is the scene from that on which Hud

son gazed! The earth now glows with the colors of civil ization; the banks of the streams are enameled with richest grasses; wood-lands and cultivated fields are harmoniously blended; the birds of spring find their delight in orchards and trim gardens, variegated with choicest plants from every temperate zone; while the brilliant flowers of the tropics bloom from the windows of the green-house and the saloon.

5. And man is still in harmony with nature, which he has subdued, cultivated, and adorned. For him, the rivers that flow to the remotest climes mingle their waters; for him, the lakes gain new outlets to the ocean; for him, the arch spans the flood, and science spreads iron pathways to the recent wilderness; for him, the hills yield up the shining marble and the enduring granite; for him, the forests of the interior come down in immense rafts; for him, the marts of the city gather the produce of every clime; and libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

6. The passions of society are chastened into purity; manners are made benevolent by civilization; and the virtue of the country is the guardian of its peace. Science investigates the powers of every plant and mineral, to find medicines for disease; schools of surgery rival the establishments of the old world. An active daily press, vigilant from party interests, free even to dissoluteness, watches the progress of society, and communicates every fact that can interest humanity; the genius of letters begins to unfold his powers in the warm sunshine of public favor. And while idle curiosity may take its walk in shady avenues by the ocean side, commerce pushes its wharves into the sea, blocks up the wide rivers with its fleets, and, sending its ships, the pride of naval architecture, to every clime, defies every wind, rides out every tempest, and invades every zone.

* Hud'son, (Henry,) an eminent English navigator who discovered the bay and river called Hudson's Bay and Hudson River He is supposed to have perished at sea, i 1611.

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